Some civil matters have criminal penalties. There's not many cases where the two overlap, but some acts are considered both criminal and civil (interestingly, most crimes have a civil and criminal side.. for instance murder is criminal, wrongful death is civil). This is one of the few cases where the two overlap.
Actually, its much, much bigger than that. First, conducting criminal investigations without a license is a felony charge akin to impersonating an officer of the law, complete with jail time (up to 5 years I believe), and fines in the tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of dollars. On top of that, if they have in fact violated a court order they have basically just multiplied whatever damages are in place by a HUGE factor. Like, guaranteed jailtime, and adding another 2 or 3 zeros to their fines (or more).
Ahhh ok I understand, so in the UK all it requires to be above the law is to be significantly difficult to replace. So, I suppose that would mean the prime minister and most other officials are immune from scrutiny too, since it would be difficult to replace them despite there being numerous replacements in the wing. You seem to forget that there are numerous FREE alternatives to all microsoft products, almost all of which are compatible to some extent or another. If you make an exception for one company because it's not "easy" to punish them then why not make exceptions for all of them? I mean, just think about the paperwork you could save! The man hours! Hell, just throw away the law in the first place, right? Then you don't even have to have a court case! I mean if you start making exceptions for one others are going to follow. That is why the law is blind, and is meant to be applied with a blind eye to all factors not pertinant to the case. The fact that most of the government made the decision to support a criminal organization should not be a mitigating factor.
Actually there are a surprising number of high dividend yield stocks which sell for relatively cheap. For instance, Fidelity has averaged about 15$ a share for the past year. If you were to sink a full million in, that would leave you with over 65,000 shares (obviously you'd have to find that many, but this is hypothetical). At 1.20$ per share thats an annual yield of close to 80,000$ from dividends alone (before taxes). Not massive, but easily something an average person could live on.
Adding google street is a decision made by your municipality (hence not being available in many locations). It is the DUTY of an American to be abreast of politics. You can't bury your head in the sand when its mentioned in the newspapers for weeks (as all large municipalities have done when they allow google street), and then claim you weren't aware. It seems to me the people were ignorant of what was going on and decided not to be proactive about their stance. They could have contacted a) the municipality, b) google. They did neither.
If you have a million dollars and you invest it thats still a pretty hefty sum. In fact, investing it in a stock which gives 1.20 annual dividends will yield more than 90,000$ a year in dividends alone, not to mention regular capital gains. More than enough to live on for the rest of your life and cover your tax obligations.
Its amazing how people are already picking sides - googlers are the only ones who so far have a valid point - they have a system in place to have offending images removed if found. While yes it means they could CYA without legal penalty, the law WILL weigh in upon that. You can't sue someone because you're too lazy to click a link - they have a system in place to handle the situation which is considered legally acceptable in numerous other situations (look at youtube with their report-this-video function in the case of copyrighted material). As for the couple, since they are inciting the claim, it is THEY who are responsible to prove their side of the case. How do you know they didn't see a cash cow and get a private road sign recently put up? Was the 'private road' an extension of a public road which would not be posted as private on GPS? Let the facts tell the story, not your emotions for or against google.
Given that NVidia is getting nailed with a class action lawsuit because of handicapped drivers, I have to wonder if Creative's withdrawal is less a product of PR and more of fear that they could be put in a similar court situation. I mean, punishing someone because they release un-crippled versions of your drivers kind of spotlights your company for having crippled drivers in the first place - the basis of the nvidia case.
So does this mean that quantum computing will be based entirely on trinary code? Will those conceptual/theoretical trinary programming languages finally get some time in the sun?
I don't understand this at all - like it or not, abortion exists. You can not deny that it exists. Why try to block information about it? That's idiotic. Simply acting as a repository of information is not advocacy in my eyes.
It was some small town local cop about 10-20 miles south of Athens, PA (which was my destination)... right near a state police barracks? I *believe* it was along route 11, but I'm not sure. Its been a long time since I've had to drive that far north.
The officer basically put it like this: "I will give you a choice, I give you an expensive ticket but you get no points on your license and your insurance company isn't notified because I'll fudge the speed you were going. Or, I give you a cheaper ticket and you get points on your license and your insurance company gets notified." On the ticket it stated that there was a 75$ non-refundable processing fee to plead non-guilty. Given i lived in SC at the time it would have been a massive hassle to return to northern PA to contest the ticket.
So what they're saying is that people who pay attention to details will be likely to sympathize with 'terrorist causes.' I'm guessing they'd mean details like the US and the UK's foreign policy in the middle east and around the world towards companies that nationalize their oil supplies. Or maybe details like the US claiming that in the war on terrorism Americans have the 4th amendment suspended.
Maybe by lack of social skills they mean "willing to actually read text books and learn about the world instead of just sit and watch American Idol." Seems a bit more accurate to me.
I got a 400$ ticket by driving on a road in northern pennsylvania at the posted speed limit. Apparently there had at one time been a speed sign posting that the speed limit dropped by 20 miles per hour (from 55 to 35). However the only sign which was posted had recently been destroyed in an accident. I took photos of the sign. However to protest the ticket would have cost me 75$ in court fees just to protest, a day of lost wages, plus the cost to drive all the way up there and back. In the end, it was cheaper just to take the ticket.
Obeying the speed limit only works if the police play by the rules, and sadly they don't always like doing that... as Rodney King, or any number of the thousands of police corruption cases on the books can tell you. Why else do you think you're more likely to get pulled over if you're from out of state? You have almost no chance to contest because its almost always cheaper to just accept the ticket - especially if you're from a far distance. This is done on purpose (as a District Attorney told me).
Our company lets people pretty much do whatever they will with our workstations and laptops. Luckily though, everyone here comes with a resume a mile long in the tech field, everyone has at least one tech certification, and most of us have spent the past 10+ years in data centers. So, we have the freedom to do what we want. For instance, on this laptop I have bioshock and call of duty 4 installed (for plane flights, etc when I have no real source of entertainment), numerous training software packages, a couple movies, and a ton of mp3s. A lot of other people have itunes installed along with a small subset of their music collections. So far I've yet to see anything bad come out of 'nonstandard software' - funny enough, the only big disaster we've had was actually when mcafee had a bug in their dat files which led most of our servers to commit suicide. The irony was that this was company software. Luckily though it gave us ammo to get the layer 8 types to switch to Kaspersky. But I digress...
If anything people are more relaxed when they are responsible for their machines. I think there's a mind set to it as well - the computer isn't kept a black box to users. They can play with it and interact with it. They can make it theirs. Its like when a carpenter has a favorite hammer or screwdriver - the others will work, but he'll prefer his or her own.
I think what makes my situation unique though is that everyone here is very tech savvy and security conscious. I highly doubt that in a situation with lots of average Joe and Jane users would our methods work even remotely as well.
Seriously, as much as I appreciate the obligatory RIAA hatred, this has nothing to do with the actual article. The actual article claims that Anderson and Lybeck are disobeying a judge's strict orders to amend their complaint in accordance with local rules of law. Whats strange is that I've seen legal complaints hundreds of pages long, some over a thousand. This judge seems to be perturbed about only 108 pages. I they don't follow the judge's rules this case won't exist much longer.
Very true.. I think a lot of it has to do with China hosting ther Olympics, they have to put themselves across to the world as awesome because they want the money, and its a great PR stunt.
Just got to the site, it appears they're hosting a bunch of pics from Tibet of people who've been killed by chinese forces. I'm thinking DDOS is becoming more and more of a liklihood.
I propose the following test for all children (5 would be an appropriate age) -
1) Tell them that strangers candy always tastes the best.
2) Tell them that a highway makes a great playground.
3) Tell them that walking around in Harlem with a shirt that has a racial slur is a good idea.
Those who survive these tests not only will have a firm understanding of how our society works, but have a healthy dose of common sense. The others we can weed out before they get a chance to breed.
I don't mind the new features as they will make the lives of a lot of people easier who are casual users. I just hope they're modular/plugin type features that can be disabled so we can get the speed-demon performance of FF3 beta. Plus I honestly don't want someone who sits down at my workstation to start typing in something and have it suggest websites out of my history... what if I questionable websites? Will I have to log in to my own browser?
Please see my other reply about the Dell lawsuit against microsoft. In their evidence there is clear indications that microsoft made numerous 'last minute' changes to the driver structure of Vista.
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Some civil matters have criminal penalties. There's not many cases where the two overlap, but some acts are considered both criminal and civil (interestingly, most crimes have a civil and criminal side.. for instance murder is criminal, wrongful death is civil). This is one of the few cases where the two overlap.
Actually, its much, much bigger than that. First, conducting criminal investigations without a license is a felony charge akin to impersonating an officer of the law, complete with jail time (up to 5 years I believe), and fines in the tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of dollars. On top of that, if they have in fact violated a court order they have basically just multiplied whatever damages are in place by a HUGE factor. Like, guaranteed jailtime, and adding another 2 or 3 zeros to their fines (or more).
Obviously these people are a terrible criminal element and must be made examples of. For the glory of the war on drugs!
Ahhh ok I understand, so in the UK all it requires to be above the law is to be significantly difficult to replace. So, I suppose that would mean the prime minister and most other officials are immune from scrutiny too, since it would be difficult to replace them despite there being numerous replacements in the wing. You seem to forget that there are numerous FREE alternatives to all microsoft products, almost all of which are compatible to some extent or another. If you make an exception for one company because it's not "easy" to punish them then why not make exceptions for all of them? I mean, just think about the paperwork you could save! The man hours! Hell, just throw away the law in the first place, right? Then you don't even have to have a court case! I mean if you start making exceptions for one others are going to follow. That is why the law is blind, and is meant to be applied with a blind eye to all factors not pertinant to the case. The fact that most of the government made the decision to support a criminal organization should not be a mitigating factor.
Actually there are a surprising number of high dividend yield stocks which sell for relatively cheap. For instance, Fidelity has averaged about 15$ a share for the past year. If you were to sink a full million in, that would leave you with over 65,000 shares (obviously you'd have to find that many, but this is hypothetical). At 1.20$ per share thats an annual yield of close to 80,000$ from dividends alone (before taxes). Not massive, but easily something an average person could live on.
Adding google street is a decision made by your municipality (hence not being available in many locations). It is the DUTY of an American to be abreast of politics. You can't bury your head in the sand when its mentioned in the newspapers for weeks (as all large municipalities have done when they allow google street), and then claim you weren't aware. It seems to me the people were ignorant of what was going on and decided not to be proactive about their stance. They could have contacted a) the municipality, b) google. They did neither.
If you have a million dollars and you invest it thats still a pretty hefty sum. In fact, investing it in a stock which gives 1.20 annual dividends will yield more than 90,000$ a year in dividends alone, not to mention regular capital gains. More than enough to live on for the rest of your life and cover your tax obligations.
Its amazing how people are already picking sides - googlers are the only ones who so far have a valid point - they have a system in place to have offending images removed if found. While yes it means they could CYA without legal penalty, the law WILL weigh in upon that. You can't sue someone because you're too lazy to click a link - they have a system in place to handle the situation which is considered legally acceptable in numerous other situations (look at youtube with their report-this-video function in the case of copyrighted material). As for the couple, since they are inciting the claim, it is THEY who are responsible to prove their side of the case. How do you know they didn't see a cash cow and get a private road sign recently put up? Was the 'private road' an extension of a public road which would not be posted as private on GPS? Let the facts tell the story, not your emotions for or against google.
Gmail is in beta, so is google scholar, I'm pretty sure froogle is along with gcal and google apps.
Given that NVidia is getting nailed with a class action lawsuit because of handicapped drivers, I have to wonder if Creative's withdrawal is less a product of PR and more of fear that they could be put in a similar court situation. I mean, punishing someone because they release un-crippled versions of your drivers kind of spotlights your company for having crippled drivers in the first place - the basis of the nvidia case.
Just curious how the Google=Evil crowd feels about this move on google's part? Haven't seen it mentioned so far.
So does this mean that quantum computing will be based entirely on trinary code? Will those conceptual/theoretical trinary programming languages finally get some time in the sun?
I don't understand this at all - like it or not, abortion exists. You can not deny that it exists. Why try to block information about it? That's idiotic. Simply acting as a repository of information is not advocacy in my eyes.
No fair, you changed the state of the cat by measuring it!
It was some small town local cop about 10-20 miles south of Athens, PA (which was my destination)... right near a state police barracks? I *believe* it was along route 11, but I'm not sure. Its been a long time since I've had to drive that far north. The officer basically put it like this: "I will give you a choice, I give you an expensive ticket but you get no points on your license and your insurance company isn't notified because I'll fudge the speed you were going. Or, I give you a cheaper ticket and you get points on your license and your insurance company gets notified." On the ticket it stated that there was a 75$ non-refundable processing fee to plead non-guilty. Given i lived in SC at the time it would have been a massive hassle to return to northern PA to contest the ticket.
So what they're saying is that people who pay attention to details will be likely to sympathize with 'terrorist causes.' I'm guessing they'd mean details like the US and the UK's foreign policy in the middle east and around the world towards companies that nationalize their oil supplies. Or maybe details like the US claiming that in the war on terrorism Americans have the 4th amendment suspended. Maybe by lack of social skills they mean "willing to actually read text books and learn about the world instead of just sit and watch American Idol." Seems a bit more accurate to me.
I got a 400$ ticket by driving on a road in northern pennsylvania at the posted speed limit. Apparently there had at one time been a speed sign posting that the speed limit dropped by 20 miles per hour (from 55 to 35). However the only sign which was posted had recently been destroyed in an accident. I took photos of the sign. However to protest the ticket would have cost me 75$ in court fees just to protest, a day of lost wages, plus the cost to drive all the way up there and back. In the end, it was cheaper just to take the ticket. Obeying the speed limit only works if the police play by the rules, and sadly they don't always like doing that... as Rodney King, or any number of the thousands of police corruption cases on the books can tell you. Why else do you think you're more likely to get pulled over if you're from out of state? You have almost no chance to contest because its almost always cheaper to just accept the ticket - especially if you're from a far distance. This is done on purpose (as a District Attorney told me).
Our company lets people pretty much do whatever they will with our workstations and laptops. Luckily though, everyone here comes with a resume a mile long in the tech field, everyone has at least one tech certification, and most of us have spent the past 10+ years in data centers. So, we have the freedom to do what we want. For instance, on this laptop I have bioshock and call of duty 4 installed (for plane flights, etc when I have no real source of entertainment), numerous training software packages, a couple movies, and a ton of mp3s. A lot of other people have itunes installed along with a small subset of their music collections. So far I've yet to see anything bad come out of 'nonstandard software' - funny enough, the only big disaster we've had was actually when mcafee had a bug in their dat files which led most of our servers to commit suicide. The irony was that this was company software. Luckily though it gave us ammo to get the layer 8 types to switch to Kaspersky. But I digress... If anything people are more relaxed when they are responsible for their machines. I think there's a mind set to it as well - the computer isn't kept a black box to users. They can play with it and interact with it. They can make it theirs. Its like when a carpenter has a favorite hammer or screwdriver - the others will work, but he'll prefer his or her own. I think what makes my situation unique though is that everyone here is very tech savvy and security conscious. I highly doubt that in a situation with lots of average Joe and Jane users would our methods work even remotely as well.
Seriously, as much as I appreciate the obligatory RIAA hatred, this has nothing to do with the actual article. The actual article claims that Anderson and Lybeck are disobeying a judge's strict orders to amend their complaint in accordance with local rules of law. Whats strange is that I've seen legal complaints hundreds of pages long, some over a thousand. This judge seems to be perturbed about only 108 pages. I they don't follow the judge's rules this case won't exist much longer.
Very true.. I think a lot of it has to do with China hosting ther Olympics, they have to put themselves across to the world as awesome because they want the money, and its a great PR stunt.
Just got to the site, it appears they're hosting a bunch of pics from Tibet of people who've been killed by chinese forces. I'm thinking DDOS is becoming more and more of a liklihood.
I propose the following test for all children (5 would be an appropriate age) - 1) Tell them that strangers candy always tastes the best. 2) Tell them that a highway makes a great playground. 3) Tell them that walking around in Harlem with a shirt that has a racial slur is a good idea. Those who survive these tests not only will have a firm understanding of how our society works, but have a healthy dose of common sense. The others we can weed out before they get a chance to breed.
I don't mind the new features as they will make the lives of a lot of people easier who are casual users. I just hope they're modular/plugin type features that can be disabled so we can get the speed-demon performance of FF3 beta. Plus I honestly don't want someone who sits down at my workstation to start typing in something and have it suggest websites out of my history... what if I questionable websites? Will I have to log in to my own browser?
Please see my other reply about the Dell lawsuit against microsoft. In their evidence there is clear indications that microsoft made numerous 'last minute' changes to the driver structure of Vista.